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traffic at your 12 oclock, 40 feet, a building, stationary.

air china does it again . . .

HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) -- Residents of a high-rise told federal authorities a China Airlines jumbo jet flew dangerously close to the side of their 41-story building.

Ana Marie Vaisanen said she could see passengers inside the Boeing 747 as it swept past her 12th-floor condominium at Century Center Saturday morning.

"This roar became louder and louder and louder ... and I look out and there is a 747," Vaisanen said.

Some residents told television station KITV the plane came within 30 feet of the building and that one of its wings passed over the fourth-floor recreation deck.

Building resident Sylvia Thomas was walking her dog when she looked up and saw the jet.

"It went behind the building and came out the other side," she said.

Tweet Coleman, the Federal Aviation Administration's Pacific representative, would only confirm witnesses reported a China Airlines 747 was involved.

"We're doing an investigation on it, so I really don't have any specifics at this time," Coleman said Saturday night.

A call placed to the airline's office at Honolulu International Airport seeking comment went unanswered.

At 350 feet, Century Center, a mixed retail-office-residential condominium building, is one of the tallest structures in Hawaii.
 
The morning of September 11th, 2001, I turned on MSNBC and thought some nut had flown a 737 into the W.T.C.

Particularly for non-pilots, perceptions can be thrown way off by the sheer size of an aircraft like the 7-4...I'll bet it wasn't that close.
 
I agree, it almost certainly wasn't 40 ft away, I would imagine the wing-tip vortices would have broken half the windows on that side of the building. ;)

Then again, you never know... :D
 
30 feet is REAL close... I would bet it wasn't closer then 1/8-1/4 mile. You would be surprised how often we actually get complaints about stuff like this. Not as much since 9/11 but I have heard/seen some bizzare ones... incidents where you say, Ugh ... a 737 couldn't have been that low in this area... then you see the top of a 40 foot evergreen with it's top chopped off... then here about a 737 in a hangar with a branch stuck in one of it's flaps :rolleyes:
 

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